Supreme Court · 1983 INSC 78 · Decided 20 July 1983
Machhl Singh and Others v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1983 INSC 78 · [1983] 3 S.C.R. 413
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 78/1981
- Decided
- 20 July 1983
- Bench
- S. MURTAZA FAZAL ALI, A. VARADARAJAN, M.P. THAKKAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; Evidence Act
Headnote
" 413 Penal Code (Act 45 of 1860), Section 302-Sentence-ln1position of death sentence-ccRarest of ~are casesformula"-Guidelines to be adopted in identi­ fication of rarest of rare cases, explained-Evidence Act (Act 1 of 1_872) Section 9-Witnesses indentifying culprits in the light of benefit of doubt, when to be invoked. A feud between two fan1ilies has resulted in tragic consequences. Seventeen lives were lost in the course of a series of five incidents which · occurred in quick succession in five different villages, situated in the vicinity of each other,
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